regurgitatedadj.
/rᵻˈɡəːdʒᵻteɪtᵻd/, /ˌriːˈɡəːdʒᵻteɪtᵻd/, U.S. /rəˈɡərdʒəˌteɪdᵻd/, /riˈɡərdʒəˌteɪdᵻd/ That has been regurgitated (literal and figurative).
ΚΠ
1800 S. Brown Treat. Yellow Fever 47 If these changes of colour in the skin were really owing to absorbed or to regurgitated bile, the colour of the urine..ought to be deeply tinged with this fluid.
1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iii. 392 The entrance..of regurgitated food..into the larynx.
1904 Lancet 16 Jan. 187/1 The chamber of the left auricle will tend to become dilated as it has to contain the regurgitated blood from the left ventricle.
1929 Encycl. Brit. XX. 885/2 When hungry the ants stroke the repletes and receive from them droplets of regurgitated honey-dew collected during times of plenty.
1994 Fighting Firearms Autumn 36/1 Many of the so-called ‘new’ inventions have usually turned out to be regurgitated versions of decades—and sometimes centuries—old systems.
2007 L. M. Chiappe Glorified Dinosaurs vii. 207/1 Everything pointed to this being the regurgitated pellet of one of the predators that inhabited Las Hoyas' ancient ecosystem.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
adj.1800- to stand in the breach
- to stand in the gap
- to stand in the stead of a person
- to stand in the way
- to stand in the way of
- to stand in the way of a person
- to stand in the way of a thing
- to stand in this
- to stand in wax for
- to stand in witness
- to stand like piffy
- to stand like piffy on a rock bun
- to stand little chance
- to stand moses
- to stand much in stall
- to stand much stall
- to stand mum
- to stand mumchance
- to stand mute
- to stand mute of malice
- to stand need
- to stand neuter
- to stand neuters
- to stand no chance
- to stand no nonsense